Morning everyone. The Booker prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan (pictured) has called it “the biggest act of copyright theft in history” and says he feels like his soul has been “strip mined” after it emerged that thousands of books – including his most celebrated work – have potentially been pirated to train AI bots. Plus, this weekend’s grand finals will be played in some record temperatures, and Michael Gambon, who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films (and, of course, was a remarkable stage actor and the star of The Singing Detective), is dead.
